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afi 3r days he was asked his name, and kept sa, ing " What," amusing scenes would follow, wl ich was likely enough, especially if the boy wi> s careful to pronounce the aspirate. Such a icene did, I believe, occur once when he went to school, and was told, as a new-comer, to stand up and furnish certain particulars. "V r hat is your name?" asked the teacher. "\ v hat," blurted out the boy, amid the laughter of the class. "What is your name 1 ?" asked the master again with more emphasis. ' What," replied the boy. " Your name, sir ! " roared out the infuriated pedagogue. "What, What !" roared back the terrified urchin. The sequel I forget, but I believe it was one of those cases in which the follies of the parents are visited on the children of the first genera- tion. T. P. ARMSTRONG.

Putney.

C. M. is quite right. The four brothers of
 * \.cts-Appstles Pegden were named after the

Evangelists, as he surmises. Whosoever is Interested in the subject of curious and un- isual baptismal names should read ' Curio- uties of Puritan Nomenclature,' by Charles W. Bardsley (Chatto & Windus, 1880), xii- 252 pp., crown 8vo. On p. 58 of that most nteresting book the story of " Actsy " is told is follows :

"A grant of administration in the estate of Acts- kpostles Pegden was made in 1865. His four >rothers, older than himself, were, of course, the our Evangelists, and had there been a sixth I dare ay his name would have been ' Romans.' An older iiember of this family, many years one of the ennel - keepers of Tickham foxhounds, was i'ontius Pilate Pegden."

Much of the information contained in this /ork is acknowledged as derived from the llder issues of ' N. & Q.' RICH. WELFORD.

At Nottingham there was a family the iristian names of which were those of the ur Evangelists. The fifth member was arued Actcyner, who was living a few years J. POTTER BRISCOE.

OLIVER CROMWELL AND Music (9 th S. iii. 1). The choir of Tewkesbury Abbey dis- ays a visible sign of Oliver's love of music the shape of the old organ taken by him om Magdalen College Chapel in Oxford. t the Restoration it was returned to Mag- ilen from Hampton Court Palace, to find in 37 a final resting-place at Tewkesbury.

A. R. BAYLEY.

That Cromwell was a lover of music, espe- ally of the organ, there is no doubt. His /vourite amusement (vide Hawkins's 4 His- iry of Music ') was to have the organ played 5iore him at Hampton Court. It seems

possible that this may have been the one removed from Whitehall ; but I have seen no proof of this. As further evidence on the general question of the encouragement given to music by the Protector, it may be men- tioned that in 1656 a Committee of Council was formed to assist in founding a College of Music in London. The work was put a stop to by the Restoration. J. FOSTER PALMER. 8, Royal Avenue, S.W.

LAMB AND BANNER (9 th S. iii. 387). The lamb and flag is a common crest which may be seen on more than one brougham in Piccadilly any day. D.

MR. STAPLETON may like to have his at- tention called to the following, which is taken from the catalogue just issued by J. Salkeld :
 * THE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM ' (9 th S. iii. 307).

" The Chronicles and the Lamentations of Gotham, to which are added John, a Model for Volunteer Captains, The Address of Capt. Hollings to the Loyal Stroud Volunteers, and other His- torical Documents illustrative of the Character of the Gothamites, 58 pages, 12mo., original wrappers, very scarce, 4,s. Qd., Stroud, 1817."

A. C. W.

If your correspondent takes interest in the continental parallels of the Gotham stories, he will find a collection of them in vols. ii., iii., and iv. of the French magazine Melusine.

H. GAIDOZ.

22, Rue Servandoni, Paris.

MUSE PLOTS (9 th S. iii. 88, 176).-- Is not the word muse a corruption of mise ? The latter has the following meanings : a messuage, cast up or put upon, expense or charges ; in Wales the customary present or tribute to every new r prince, &c., and in the County Palatine of Chester the same to every new earl ; also certain customary gratuities sent to the Lord Marchers of Wales by their tenants, &c.

JOHN RADCLIFFE.

BOOK-PLATE (9 th S. iii. 287). In Burke's ' General Armory ' is found the following : Rooke, of Horton, co. Kent : Argent, on a chevron engrailed between three rooks sable as many chess-rooks of the first. Crest, an arm embowed in armour proper, garnished or, holding in the gauntlet a pistol gold ; the arm environed with a trumpet argent. No family of Rice has a crest as described on the book-plate. J. LONSDALE.

A page is devoted in the monthly Journal of the Ex-Libris Society to the identification of book-plates and the owners thereof. L^p- wards of three hundred and fifty plates have been transmitted for that purpose. Has your correspondent availed himself of this oppor-